The annals of “I’m not antivaccine,” part 20: “ There is no safe vaccine ” and excusing the murder of autistic children

One of the most insidious and oft-repeated myths of the antivaccine movement is that vaccines cause autism. Certainly, it is true that there was an antivaccine movement long before anyone thought of linking vaccines to autism. For example, in the the 1980s the DPT (diptheria-whole cell pertussis-tetanus) vaccine was linked to encephalitis and neurological damage,…
Source: Respectful Insolence - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking Alex Spourdalakis Andrew Wakefield Del Bigtree Polly Tommey quackery vaccines Vaxxed Source Type: blogs